Type and type-holder for box-printing



' No. 608,746. Patented Aug. 9, I898.

J. F. AMES.

TYPE AND TYPE HOLDER FOB BOXv PRINTING.

(Application filed Nov. 17, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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JOHN F. AMES, or PORTLAND, OREGON.

TYPE AND TYPE-HOLDER FOR BOX-=PRlNTlNG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,746, dated August 9, 1898. Application filed November 17, 18:97. erial No. 658,807. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. AMES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, county of Multnomah, State of Oregon, have invented an Improvement in Type and Type- Holders for Box-Printing; and I hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates especially to the construction of movable type and a chase or holder therefor, by which they are adapted to be employed, in conjunction with a cy1inder upon which the holder is mounted, for the purpose of printing upon wooden boxes and like surfaces.

It consists of the parts and the construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a section on the line a; so of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is a section on the line y y of Fig. 2.

The object of my invention is to provide hard-surfaced type which are especially adapted for printing upon wooden surfaces and so formingthe faces of these type that they will readily take the ink over the Whole surface and correspondingly imprint it upon the surface to which they are afterward applied.

In the employment of ordinary type for printing on paper and similar soft or yielding surfaces the faces of the type are made flat, and even if the type are of considerable size and employed upon a cylinder-press there is no difficulty in producing a fair impression because of the soft and yielding nature of the surface upon which it is applied. WVhen, however, it is necessary to print upon the hard and comparatively unyielding surface of wood, and when the type, figures, or other characters or engravings which are used thereon are of considerable size, it is not possible to make the large surfaces take the ink properly or transmit it satisfactorily to the surface to be imprinted.

In my invention the type A, of whatever style, are made with convex printing-faces and concaved backs.

The curvature of the front and rearfaces is the same as that of the cylinder upon which the type will afterward be mounted for use, and it will be seen that whatever the size of the type the curvature of the surface enables them to properly receive the ink from theink roller or pad and to correspondingly print it upon the desired surface. These type are preferablyfixed in a holder or chase B, which has one or more open spaces or channels 1), adapted to receive the type or printing-plates.

In the present caseI have shown this holder in the form of a concavo-convex plate having sufficient depth to properly receive the type and having channels made in that portion of the face into which the type are to be placed. In some cases this chase or holder is cast,having apportion of the printing-surface cast with it, the mold from which the casting is made being of the same curvature as that of the cylinder to which the chase or holder is to be subsequently applied. Thus in a brand for certain kinds of fruit the pictorial representation of the fruit or other design may be permanently cast uponone part of the holder, and the name of the fruit may be also cast upon the holder having the convex surfaces required.

' The channels are made entirely through the holder or chase and may be made with suitable relation to the permanent parts of the plate, and into these channels are placed the proprietary names or such descriptive matter or titles as it is desired to imprint upon the boxes, so that While the main portion of the plate is permanent a different proprietary name or names of the producing-orchards or the trade-mark can be introduced by means of the movable type and any number of boxes printed that may be ordered by particular customers. In order to retain these movable type in place, I have shown the ends beveled and diverging considerably from the face to the rear, as shown at a. The grooves or channels b which are made in the curved chase or holder 13 have the opposite sides correspondingly beveled, so that when the type are set in place these beveled contacting faces prevent their passing through the holder and dropping out. v

The type are placed in the holder from the rear or concaved face, and the meeting sides of the type and also the ends of the channels in which th ey are placed are beveled on radial lines from the center of curvature of the holder, so that the type fit closely together ICO and also within the channels. WVhen the type have thus been set, they are retained in place by means of an iron concave-convex plate O,which is smooth and of uniform thickness and which fits into the concave back of the type -holder, this concave face fitting against the concave rear faces of the typeblocks. This plate is secured in place by dowel-pins D or other suitable means, and the whole device is mounted upon a cylinder, by which it is carried, so that boxes may be imprinted by passing beneath the rotating cylinder and the type-faces thus produced.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A device for printing boxes consisting of a segmental holder adapted to be fixed upon a revolving cylinder, said holder having channels made entirely through it, the ends of the channels made radial from the center of curvature of the holder and the sides of said channels beveled and converging from the In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 3 5 hand.

JOHN F. AMES. WVitnesses:

JosEPH N. TEAL, BLANOHE LUoKEY. 

